Engelsk titel: Nursing students' beliefs concerning education and nursing as a profession
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Författare:
Rognstad MK
Email: MayKarin.Rognstad@su.hio.no
Språk: Nor
Antal referenser: 24
Dokumenttyp:
Artikel
UI-nummer: 02073396
Sammanfattning
The purpose of this article is to
present and discuss findings of a
survey research related to who
the students entering nursing
education are and what beliefs
they have of nursing education
and nursing as a profession. After
6 months of nurses’ training at a
Norwegian college in 1998/99, a
class of students completed a
questionnaire with closed and
open questions addressing educational
and occupational choice
and conceptions of the education
and the occupational practice.
The response rate was 80%
(N=315).
In accordance to recent international
research the findings of this
study strengthen the tendencies
that nursing students form a very
heterogeneous group, as only 55
% of the selection answer that
they wanted to study nursing. The
frequency distribution showed
that 20% of the students expected
nursing education would give
them more practice and less theory.
Regarding the open question
addressing what beliefs they had
about the nursing profession,
52% of the students answered
«human contact/care» whilst
30% answered «did not know»,
«did not think about it». Factor
analysis resulted in three factors.
The first factor can be interpreted
as a communication factor. The
second can be understood as a
clever and practical factor and
the third one can be interpreted
as a caring factor.